Why the Raw Food Diet?

So why the raw food diet?

One of the best explanations I've heard for why we should eat raw, living foods is because they are LIVING!

They are actually still alive, the nutrients are 100% intact.

If you take fruit for example and put it in your fruit bowl and ignore it for a few days, it will continue to ripen until it spoils.

If you take that same fruit and stew it with some sugar, will it continue to ripen? Of course not! But why? Because it is dead.

Why Raw Food? Raw Foods Are Alive - Cooked Foods Are Dead

There are plenty of arguments that cooking expresses certain nutrients that would not otherwise be available and that is true. But for every one nutrient that is expressed through cooking, 10 000 are destroyed!

I prefer to lose one rather than 10 000, wouldn't you?

Cooking is one of the most nutritionally damaging things we can do to food!

And for what? Without artificially spicing and salting it to high heaven, it's pretty bland.

Okay I'm sure the arguments will come thick and fast about how delicious various dishes are, but the truth is, you educate your taste buds about what to like.

If you are accustomed to eating salty spicy food, then natural raw foods taste bland. But if you eat lots of whole, raw, natural foods you come to appreciate the natural flavors of the food even more!

Cooking is just another form of processing, and we all know processed foods aren't good for us!

The concept of needing to have a snooze after a meal becomes a distant memory on the raw food diet

That sluggish feeling you get after a heavy meal occurs because your body needs to focus all of its energy on the task at hand; breaking down this complex cooked meal into the amino acids and sugars that it can actually utilize.

Raw fruits and plants contain these sugars and amino acids in their simplest form so they require very little work before they can be utilized by the body.

Fruits and Vegetables are the perfect ENERGY food!

BEAUTY is another answer to the question of why the raw food diet.

Eating raw food will allow you to sculpt the most beautiful you!

Whether you won the genetic lottery or not, your true beauty is likely hiding away under puffiness, blotches, acne, cellulite, excess weight, eye bags, wrinkles, varicose veins, broken blood vessels and bloodshot cloudy eyes.

Even if you're still young enough not to have begun to show the degeneration of your body, internally that is exactly what is happening.

Wouldn't you prefer REGENERATION rather than DEGENERATION?

With the raw food diet you give your body the chance to clear out years of accumulated junk, all those toxins that have been tucked away in your fat cells, in your eye bags, your acne and your blotches.

As those toxins clear out, your most beautiful self will be given the chance to shine.

It's not just physical!

The physical part is just a happy side effect. Another compelling reason for why the raw food diet is the mental clarity and spiritual connectedness you feel along with the knowledge that you are eating in the kindest possible way for this great planet of ours.

Your memory will also improve, along with your concentration and focus.

So why the raw food diet?

Why the hell not!

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